{"id":18325,"date":"2024-03-20T14:57:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T18:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/?p=18325"},"modified":"2024-03-20T14:57:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T18:57:32","slug":"12th-annual-sedgwick-lecture-who-is-a-queer-ancestor-4-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/2024\/03\/20\/12th-annual-sedgwick-lecture-who-is-a-queer-ancestor-4-25\/","title":{"rendered":"12th Annual Sedgwick Lecture: &#8220;Who is a Queer Ancestor?&#8221; (4\/25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for \u201cWho is A Queer Ancestor?,\u201d the Twelfth Annual Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Lecture in Gender &amp; Sexuality Studies with Professor Tavia Nyong\u2019o. This event will take place April 25th at 5PM at The Howard Thurman Center (808 Commonwealth Avenue).<\/p>\n<p>This lecture explores the idea of queer ancestry and the prospects of being a \u201cgood<span>\u00a0<\/span><span>ancestor<\/span>.\u201d It reflects upon the process of memorializing the dead and the risks of secular sainthood. The lecture discusses re-staging a famous encounter between Audre Lorde and James Baldwin, and suggests that<span>\u00a0<\/span><span>ancestor<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>reverence might obscure the productive aspects of conflict in shaping queer history<span>\u00a0<\/span>Drawing on the irreverent stance of the late Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina, the lecture proposes a model for decolonizing the ancestral, particularly relevant in the digital era.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reception to Follow<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With thanks to our sponsors:<\/p>\n<p>The Boston University Center for the Humanities, The Eve Kosofsky<span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Sedgwick<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span>Foundation,<span>\u00a0<\/span>The Departments of English, History, Religion, Romance Studies, Sociology, and World Languages &amp; Literature, and the Programs in African American Studies and Women\u2019s, Gender &amp; Sexuality Studies, The LGBTQIA+ Center for Faculty &amp; Staff.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wll\/files\/2024\/03\/sedgwick-2024-TAVIA-NYONGO-E1_01-424x636-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"636\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/files\/2024\/03\/sedgwick-2024-TAVIA-NYONGO-E1_01-424x636-1.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/files\/2024\/03\/sedgwick-2024-TAVIA-NYONGO-E1_01-424x636-1-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for \u201cWho is A Queer Ancestor?,\u201d the Twelfth Annual Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Lecture in Gender &amp; Sexuality Studies with Professor Tavia Nyong\u2019o. This event will take place April 25th at 5PM at The Howard Thurman Center (808 Commonwealth Avenue). This lecture explores the idea of queer ancestry and the prospects of being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15857,"featured_media":18326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22861],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15857"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18328,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18325\/revisions\/18328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}